Training Log Archive: JanetT

I'll upload tracks from yesterday's middle and sprints later, but wanted to note a decent hiccup remedy--suck a bit of juice from a lemon slice if you have one handy. Worked for me after my usual method didn't. ;-)

I worked at the finish of today's long races with Seabass, sitting out in the sun near the beach (which felt good, but I needed to cover up despite sunscreen; clouded up later). The competitors had a LONG run across either the concrete sidewalk or the sand along the side of it after coming out of the woods. Everyone was out of the woods by 2:30. The WOC team was announced around 1:30.

I'm not logging several jogs back and forth from the download/assembly area to the finish location.

C • Finish working 2

Event: 2010 US Team Trials for WOC
 

Walk to start of middle course, with a few jogging sections thrown in.

Ran the women's red course, open category at the Team Trials event. I was one of the first starters after the TT went out, meaning faster runners starting later had the chance of catching me. I tried not to think about them, but didn't always succeed. Linda K started 2 minutes back.

A lot of little errors mostly in map-reading, as I'd get into the circle but then bop around either looking in the wrong place (a lot of little similar features nearby) or not reading the descriptions carefully and looking at the wrong feature. I managed to do 6 controls cleanly by myself, and another 6 I had others around pinpointing the control location. The other 7 I managed to mess up all by myself.

AP split analysis gives my biggest errors at 3, 8, and 15. At 2 I was off to the left; at 4 I was about 6' away looking in the wrong direction; at 5 I was looking on nearby cliffs; at 6 I was about 5 meters north of it but Linda spotted the flag first. A lot of little mistakes that add up. After bobbling 8 Linda left me behind, so I was surprised to see her going in to 17 at the same time as me...she had bobbled the leg to 11 and lost several minutes. My mistake at 15 was not reading the map well; thinking the cliffs were on the east side of two little hills when really they were on the west--dumb. At 16 I picked up Charlie, and shortly thereafter Linda, Kissy, and Katia. Charlie disappeared and I managed to keep L, K, and K in sight til the end.

I suspect I was going too fast to read carefully. The ones I did better on I think I went slower.

FR distance was 4.22 km.

Walk back to parking from finish of middle course.

TT-women's sprint course north/northwest of Lake Welch Beach, 1:4000. We were able to watch the TT-ers visit a few controls that were visible from the parking lot, which helped (hey, use the information if it's available, right?). In particular, we could see both men and women visit one bare rock / cliff face at the far end of the lot. After I got my control descriptions I noted #3 was "bare rock, SE side", and once I flipped over my map I confirmed that was the one. Then I proceeded to flub the first control, a cliff, visiting the men's control (in a reentrant which had a rock face), but I quickly corrected. Went mostly smoothly from there, though several people with more speed passed me here and there. I overran the "white corridor" into 13 (a little corner at the E end of a thicket) and came around from the far end, so a little hesitation there. But I didn't skip any controls (yay! no mispunch), and didn't finish last, both of which were goals for this race. :-)

FR = 2.36 km

Red Middle - Splits

Red Sprint - Splits

Almost-typical rest day before racing tomorrow. Of course I'm not going to work as hard as those doing Sunday's races too. :-)

I'm volunteering at the finish Sunday. Should be great fun to see everyone racing in! And the weather report sounds just right for spectators. :-)

Using exercise balls. I got there early enough to get a correctly sized one. Hips extremely tight after hip exercises, probably a remnant of yesterday's long run. Did some extra hip stretches after the class.

In Chatham. "Circuits," in a way, alternating weights, step, and aerobics. Good stretching (which my hips/legs still need).

Long run, with "This American Life" for company. Listened to the whole of "The Bridge," and part of "Urban Myths." It sure made the run (in cool, damp weather -- 48 and drizzly at times) much more pleasant.

I was fascinated by one story in The Bridge, about a fellow who has a home in a space under a drawbridge. Not a bad place to be, until the drawbridge goes up!

At the Y, using rings for extra hip torture. :-)

"variety" program with inclines between .5 and 4.5.